nay Pyi Taw, 3 Oct—On the occasion of National Foundation Day of the Republic of Korea, which falls
on 3 October 2013, U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, has sent messages of
felicitations to Her Excellency Ms. Park Geun-hye, President of the Republic of Korea, and His Excellency
Mr. Chung Hong-Won, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea.
Similarly, the President has sent messages of felicitations to His Excellency Mr. Joachim Gauck, Federal
President of the Federal Republic of Germany, and Her Excellency Dr. Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the
Federal Republic of Germany, on the occasion of the Day of German Unity of the Federal Republic of
Germany, which falls on 3 October 2013.—MNA

President U Thein Sein inspects Rakhine, Sittway, Kyaukpyu;
meets townselders, departmental officials
Thandwe, 2 Oct —
President U Thein Sein
met with townselders of
Rakhine national races
and Islam social leaders
from Sittway, Rakhine
State, separately today at
Bandoola Hall in Sittway
and discussed matters on
community peace and
development affairs.
After the meeting, he
inspected the camps for
internally displaced persons
and normality of the town
in a motorcade.
During his tour of
Sittway,
the President
also met with members
of the sub-committee for
restoration of community

peace and development
committee and departmental
officials.
Rakhine State Chief
Minister U Hla Maung
Tin reported on measures
taken
for
restoration
of
community
peace,
establishment of camps for
IDPs and building houses
for IDPs and rehabilitation
tasks.
After hearing report,
the
President
gave
instructions on measures
to be taken for gaining
community peace, the rule
of law and development of
socio economy of the local
people.
(See page 9)

President U Thein Sein being welcomed
by local people and officials on his arrival at
Kyaukpyu airport.—mna

According to Manager
Daw Nyo Nyo Khine of
All Nippon Airways –ANA
Office in Yangon at a press
meet on 30 September,
ANA's
38-seater
Boeing-737 aircraft serving
flights to Tokyo from
Mingaladon Airport thrice
a week will be replaced
with a new 202-seater
Boeing 767 starting from
30 September.
ANA resumed its

Yangon-Japan
non-stop
flight using 38-seater B-737
aircraft on 15 October
2012 after a 12-year long
suspension. ANA used to
operate its flights between
Japan and Myanmar from
1996 to 2000, she said.
“Arrivals of Japanese
visitors had reached 47,000
in 2012 compared to about
20,000 in the previous year.
So, ANA will increase
its seating capacity by

substituting the Boeing-737
aircraft with the new
202-seater Boeing 767,” Mr.
Mikio Namata, Japanese
Ambassador to Myanmar,
said at the ceremony to
mark the deployment of a
new aircraft for daily flight.
Number of passengers
traveling between Myanmar
and Japan will be on the
increase, he added.
Also present at the
ceremony were Deputy

Minister for Transport U
Zin Yaw, Yangon Region
Minister for Transport U
Aung Khin and officials,
and President of JapanMyanmar
Friendship
Association U Saw Hla
Min. The new aircraft with
more than 70 passengers on
board operated its maiden
flight on that day.
It is learnt that Japan
will
cooperate
with
Myanmar on safety aviation
and other sectors. The new
aircraft bound for Tokyo
from Mingaladon Airport
will take off at 9.45 pm
daily.
Kyemon: 2-10-13
Trs: YM

A verbal dispute among local people ignited riots
on 29 September in Thandwe, Rakhine State. The
violent incidents left casualties on both sides and
some houses were damaged. The President was
deeply touched with the incidents like the people
who suffered loss of lives and property.
Occurrence of conflicts made a loss not for Rakhine
State but for the State while all-out efforts are being
made for ensuring peace and stability, rule of law
and socio-economic development.
Government will take measures for bringing an end
to the conflicts as quick as possible, bringing rioters
to trial in accord with the law and rebuilding the
houses which were burnt down. Public are urged to
cooperate with officials in order to avoid recurrence
of conflicts.
Press Release Team

Deputy Minister for Sports U Zaw Win speaking at concluding of Liaison
Officer/Volunteer Youths Course.
Nay Pyi Taw, 2
Oct—The Liaison Officer/
Volunteer Youth Course
No. 3 concluded at the hall
of Yezin University of
Agriculture, here, on 28
September morning, with
an address by Chairman of
the Work Committee for

Organizing the XXVII SEA
Games Deputy Minister for
Sports U Zaw Win.
The training course was
attended by 228 students and
faculty members and 36 staff
from ministries, totalling
264.
The course No. 4 wil be

opened soon.
The liaison officers
and volunteer youths will
be assigned duties at the
stadiums, gymnasiums and
sports venues in the XXVII
SEA Games to be hosted by
Myanmar in 2013.
Kyemon-Phyo Sanda

People in 25 villages of Chin State face
shortage of food
ThaNTLaNg, 2 Oct—A
total of 25 villages in Thantlang Township of Chin
State are facing shortage of
food due to bad weather and
decline of crops production.
“Chin nationals are suffering from shortage of food
for four months. This year,
our villagers bought rice
from India. Now, we have
no rice in hand,” said a local.

A creek is located between the Chin village and
India. Whenever creek water
level is rising, anyone cannot
cross it. Even the villagers
affort to buy rice by his own
money, they cannot buy rice
from India due to overflow of
the creek as natural barrier,
he said.
The local people share
food and rice among them

Stimulant tablets seized in
Lashio
Lashio, 2 Oct—Members of No. 24 Anti-Drug
Squad of Lashio led by IP
Naing Htanmana together
with witnesses, acting on
tip-off, searched the house
on Namsan Street in Ward 5
of Lashio on 26 September.
They did not find the
house owner by his son Rauk
Mon Wint at alone.
The troops found 20

stimulant tablets with 1
and 88 brand in the packet
from the trouers weighing
18 grams.
Lashio Myoma Police
Station opened a file of
lawsuit against the drug
possessor under Sections
15/19(a) of Narcotic Drugs
and Psychotropic Substances
Law.—Kyemon-Zaw Lwin
(Lashio)

in the bad weather period.
They seek the best way to
provide assistance to the
village.
In 2008, the local people had experience of facing
food difficulties as rats destroyed crops plantations.
This year’s food shortage
is the worst in their experience, said a primary school
teacher of Ywabuk Village
in Thantlang Township.
In 2008, the local people
faced starvation in Paletwa,
Matupi and Thantlang Townships due to destructions
of rats.
Kyemon-Zo Hay Hsa
(Chin Hill)

was constituted on 1 April
2013. We have to take care
of globetrotters in the tourist
destination to be free from
crime and loss of property in
addition to health care services,” a police member said.
A total of 10 police
members including one
police inspector and four

women police members are
assigned duty in Mingun
region so as to take care of
visitors.
The Police opens camps
at Pahtodawgyi, the Great
Bell, Myatheindan Pagoda
and Pondaw Pagoda jetty in
Mingun daily.
Kyemon-Nanda Min Lwin

People of Ngathainggyoung happy for
subsiding of water level at Ngawun River
NgaThaiNggyouNg, 2
Oct—Ngawun River water
level reached its danger
level at Ngathainggyoung
Sub-Township of Pathein
District in Ayeyawady
Region for several times
this rainy season.
In the last week of
September, the water level
exceeded one feet above its
danger level, and the local
people suffered floods.

At present, water level
of the river is still subsiding
at the town. So, the local
people are very happy.
“River water level rose
three times in our town this
rainy season. The local
people and students faced
hardships in their travels.
No we are very happy as
the water subsides. We all
thank the officials for their
contribution to us when

we are facing difficulties
of flood,” said a parent
of student residing near
Ngawun River.
During the flooding
period, basic education
schools were temporarily
closed and parents were
worried about their children. At that time, they were
evacuated to safety.
Kyemon-Thein Zaw
(Shweli Oo)

Now, schoolchildren can go back home safely due to subsiding of water level
in Ngathainggyoung.

Crime Reduction

Motorbike thieves arrested in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area
Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Oct—
Those who evaded from the
case in which Min Min (a)
Ko Min and party of motorcycle thieves were arrested
by Nay Pyi Taw Police
Force on 8 September were
arrrested under the supervision of the Commander of
Nay Pyi Taw Police Force
on 25 September morning.
A squad of Nay Pyi
Taw Police Force Office
led by IP Thaung Lwin
arrested Lin Lin (a) Ko Lin
(a) Shan Lay, 17 of Aungzeya Ward in Zeyathiri
Township.
After investigation,
the police could expose 13
more motorcycles.
Yezin Police Station
of Zeyathiri Township and
Pyinmana Myoma Police
Station opened files of

lawsuit against the person
in 13 cases under the law.
A total of motorbike
thieves and those who sold
the motorbikes totall, 11
were arrested by police

and 42 motorcycles were
confiscated.
The police search the
suspects escaped from the
scene.
Nay Pyi Taw Police

Syrian refugees rest at a new refugee camp on the outskirts of the city of Arbil, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, on
20 August, 2013.—ReuteRs
geneva, 2 Oct—The
United Nations is shifting
its aid effort for Syria to
prepare for long-term help
to neighbouring countries to
cope with the humanitarian
crisis, the head of the UN
refugee agency UNHCR
said on Tuesday.
More than 100,000
people have been killed in
Syria’s 2-1/2-year conflict
as rebels fight to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Over
half of its 20 million people
need aid and around 2 million have fled to neighbouring Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.
“The new approach is
to combine the emergency

UN report
says 1 in 8
people around
world
chronically
hungry
Rome, 2 Oct—About
one in eight people in the
world are estimated to be
suffering from chronic hunger regularly in 2011-13, UN
food agencies said in a report
released on Tuesday. The
latest tally of people in hunger, totaling 842 million, was
lower than 868 million in
2010-2012 cited in a report
released last year by agencies
including the Food and Agriculture Organization and the
World Food Programme.
A majority of them
were in developing countries, while around 15.7
million were in industrial
economies, according to
the report. The decline in
the total number of undernourished people stemmed
from rises in income along
with the growth of developing economies, making
food more affordable.
Kyodo News

with the long-term. For that,
humanitarian agencies alone
cannot do it,” UNHCR chief
Antonio Guterres told a
news conference in Geneva.
“What we want from
now is ... a longer-term kind
of approach, not only in relation to humanitarian aspects but in relation to structural aspects, namely related
to those areas that are more
directly impacted — education, health, infrastructure,
housing, environment.”
UN agencies want to
join forces with the World
Bank and other international
financial agencies to help
neighbours of Syria that are
shouldering the heaviest

burden.
UNHCR said 17 countries were participating in
its programme to resettle
Syrian refugees, including
12 European countries, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States and
Mexico.
But resettlement programmes so far cover about
10,000 people — a drop in
the ocean for a refugee population of 2.1 million and
a further 4.25 million displaced people within Syria.
With no sign of a rapid
end to the conflict, aid agencies are preparing for a third
winter of war.
“Already the impact of
this crisis in terms of damage has been huge in terms
of damage to the Syrian
economy, to the Lebanese
economy, to Jordan (and
the region),” said Anthony
Lake, head of UN children’s
agency UNICEF.
He
told
Reuters
UNICEF in the region was
increasingly focusing on
building “capacity for the
future”, citing for example
Lebanon’s public school
system where displaced Syrian children will outnumber Lebanese within a few
months.—Reuters

World Bank pledges more funds
for poor in troubled states

Washington, 2 Oct—
World Bank President Jim
Yong Kim pledged to increase funding for poor
people living in states in or
close to conflict as part of a
new lending strategy for the
global development bank
and warned of the impact of
US fiscal uncertainty on developing nations.
In a speech in Washington, where a partial government shutdown began
on Tuesday after a standoff
between President Barack
Obama and congressional
Republicans over healthcare
reforms, Kim said the implications could be far-reaching.
US fiscal uncertainty “combined with other sources of
volatility in the global economy, could do great damage
to emerging markets and developing countries in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America that
have lifted millions of people out of poverty in recent
years,” he said.
RBC Global Asset
Management estimates that
each week of shutdown will
shave about 0.1 percentage point off US economic
growth, potentially helping
to trim demand for imports.
Kim has sought to energize the bank around a poverty-eradication goal since

Britain’s Cameron casts election
as battle over free markets
manchesteR,
(England), 2 Oct—British Prime
Minister David Cameron
on Wednesday will cast a
national election in 2015 as
a choice between his “probusiness” ruling Conservative party and what he calls
its anti-business socialist
rivals.
In a speech to his party’s annual conference in
the northern English city of
Manchester, Cameron will
place Britain’s economic
recovery at the heart of his
bid for re-election.
He will champion private enterprise as the way
to improve living standards
and accuse the opposition
Labour party of planning
to interfere in free markets
and subvert capitalism.
Pitching the Conservatives as the party of aspiration and tax cuts, Cameron
will seek to counter Labour’s charge that he has
stoked a recovery for the
wealthy while failing ordinary voters who are grappling with prices rising
faster than wages.

“Profit, wealth creation, tax cuts, enterprise:
these are not dirty, elitist words—they’re not the
problem, they really are
the solution because it’s
not government that creates
jobs, it’s businesses,” Cameron will say.
Extracts of the speech
were made available in
advance. After cutting the
biggest budget deficit since
World War Two by a third,
Cameron is trying to con-

vince voters that despite
three years of economic
stagnation, the Conservatives are the only party that
can be trusted with the $2.5
trillion economy.
Signs of a recovery had
helped Cameron narrow
Labour’s lead in opinion
polls, though Labour drew
ahead again after promising to take on vested interests, tax bankers more, and
freeze energy bills.
Reuters

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron listens as
London Mayor Boris Johnson delivers his keynote
speech to the Conservative Party annual conference in
Manchester, northern England on 1 Oct, 2013.
ReuteRs

he assumed his post last year
and he has launched a major
reorganization to make the
institution more nimble and
useful, especially to middleincome countries, and work
more closely with the private
sector. Inequality and limited
opportunities for the poorest
people in each country can
drive instability and breed
conflict, Kim said, pointing
to developments in the Middle East, where a wave of
protests drove decades-old
rulers from power.
“This is what happens
when prosperity is reserved
for a select few,” he said in
a speech on Tuesday. “All of
those left out feel deeply the
burn of inequity.”
To meet its goals amid
greater competition for development funds and a tight
budget, the World Bank must
focus on “bold” projects and
technical solutions to countries, he said.
That will involve working with the bank’s private
sector arm, the International
Finance Corporation (IFC),

to encourage businesses to
create jobs in poorer countries.
It will also require focusing on so-called fragile
states, which will house most
of the world’s poor people
in the next five years. Kim
said the bank’s fund for the
poorest will plan to increase
its funding to fragile states by
50 percent over the next three
years, as would the IFC.
According to a draft
strategy paper presented to
the bank’s board last month,
and seen by Reuters, the new
focus will require cutbacks in
other programmes.
Kim made no mention
of cuts in his speech ahead
of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meetings next week.
The bank is also still figuring out its financing strategy, and may start relying
more on fees from advisory
services and on earmarked
funds from specific governments. The bank’s board will
discuss the finances after the
meetings.—Reuters

Chief negotiators
completing preparations
for TPP ministerial
summit

Koji Tsuruoka, Japan’s
chief negotiator for the
Trans-Pacific Partnership
free trade talks, speaks
with reporters in Bali,
Indonesia, on 2 Oct, 2013,
before the start of the
second day of the chief
negotiators’ meeting.
Kyodo News
nusa Dua, (Indonesia),
2 Oct—Chief negotiators of
the 12 countries in the TransPacific Partnership free trade
negotiations worked on
last-minute preparations on
Wednesday before their ministers and leaders gather in
Bali, Indonesia with the aim
of reaching a basic agreement of the pact.
“We have been able to
arrange what we will report
to the ministers, and substantive discussions are in
progress,” Japan’s chief ne-

gotiator Koji Tsuruoka told
journalists in the morning
before the start of the second
day of the chief negotiators’
meeting. Noting the chief
negotiators are receiving reports from working groups,
Tsuruoka added, “I think
we are making progress as
scheduled.” The chief negotiators of the TPP talks for
creating one of the world’s
largest free trade areas are
tasked with sorting issues
for political decisions by the
ministers at meetings starting
on Thursday, followed by a
summit on Tuesday.
The TPP meetings are
being held on the sidelines of
the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation forum gatherings, which started its senior
officials’ meeting on Tuesday. The 12 members of the
TPP are hoping to reach a basic agreement in October to
clear the way for concluding
negotiations by the end of the
year. During the first day of
the talks, the negotiators discussed five out of 21 fields
covered by the envisioned
pact and were expected to
address some of the remaining fields that require sorting
before the ministerial meeting.—Kyodo News

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New Light of Myanmar

S C IE NCE & TE C H NO L O G Y

Twitter sorts out lock-up agreements ahead of
releasing IPO plans

Men are silhouetted against a video screen with a Twitter logo as he poses with a
Samsung S4 smartphone in this photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town
of Zenica, on 14 Aug, 2013.—ReuteRs
San FranciSco, 2 Oct ly toward its initial public that they would be prohib— Twitter Inc’s bankers offering. The email from ited from selling shares for
contacted early investors Goldman Sachs, the lead 6 months after the firm lists,
this week asking them to underwriter of Twitter’s according to two shareholdsign a 180-day lock-up IPO, asked shareholders ers who received the email.
agreement by Wednesday to sign and return a form
Twitter declined to
afternoon, showing the by 5 pm Pacific time on comment. Twitter and
company is moving swift- Wednesday acknowledging Goldman are moving swift-

ly to prepare for the IPO
and could soon disclose its
S-1 documents that lay out
Twitter’s IPO plans and
its well-guarded financial
numbers. Quartz, the business news website, first reported on Sunday that Twitter intended to make its IPO
plans public this week.
Companies often use
lock-up agreements to prevent insiders from selling
shares simultaneously following an IPO, thereby
flooding the market and depressing the stock price.
Twitter, which is expected to be valued at up
to $15 billion, tweeted on
Sept 12 that it had filed with
US regulators to go public,
but had done so confidentially and without providing a timeline under a process available to emerging
growth companies.
Reuters

China to issue air pollution warnings in Beijing,
Tianjin
beijing, 2 Oct — China
plans to pilot an air quality warning system in the
heavily-polluted cities of
Beijing, Tianjin and surrounding areas next month
amid the country’s increasing efforts to tackle the
much-concerned problem.
China
Meteorological Administration and the

Ministry of Environmental
Protection has jointly released the plan that put the
alert system at three levels
-- I being the highest and III
the lowest.
When the air quality
index is set to go beyond
500, a level I warning will
issued, and level II and III
are for the index to be at

between 300 to 500, 200 to
300, respectively, for three
consecutive days.
The plan came as China has been under growing pressure to address the
causes of air pollution after heavy smog smothered
large swathes of the country
early this year.
The government aims

to cut the density of inhalable particulate matter by
at least 10 percent in major
cities nationwide by 2017.
PM 2.5, a key indicator of
air pollution, should fall by
about 25 percent from 2012
levels in Beijing and surrounding provincial areas by
2017, according to a recent
government plan.—Xinhua

We’re ready for takeoff. Sit back and enjoy your iGizmo
new York, 2 Oct —
In as little as a few months,
airline passengers could
play video games, read ebooks, watch movies and
listen to music while their
flights take off or land, ending a long-standing ban on
devices being used during those risky phases.
But looser rules under
consideration for portable
electronic devices (PEDs)
are likely to force airlines to
make some major changes.
Carriers, for starters,
will need to determine if
their planes are “PED resistant” and able to tolerate
the proposed broader use of
electronics. Some smaller
and older planes with less
robust avionics may not
be, calling for different
procedures on device use.
Cabin crews will need
new announcements, placards and ways to monitor
broader use of such devices
as Apple Inc iPads or Amazon.com Inc Kindles. Bulky
devices such as laptops and
DVD players will need to be

stowed during takeoff and
landing, and perhaps even
when planes are taxiing for
long periods to avoid blocking people in an evacuation.
Most
importantly,
on some landings in poor
weather, passengers may
still be required to shut down
devices so they won’t interfere with electronic guidance systems that planes
rely on to locate the runway.
The new guidelines,
under review by the Federal
Aviation Administration, put

the onus on airlines to ensure
planes are operated safely,
according to members of a
government-industry committee that recommended
policy changes to the agency.
“It’s not about certifying devices to be used on
airplanes. It’s about certifying airplanes to enable use of
devices,” said Douglas Johnson, a committee member
and vice president of technology policy at the Consumer
Electronics
Association.
Johnson and others

Airline passengers look at a flight status board at San
Francisco International Airport in San Francisco,
California on 22 April, 2013.—ReuteRs

said they hoped the FAA
would act swiftly on recommendations in the report.
Johnson also said he
hoped the government
shutdown would not slow
action on the new guidelines so that they could
be in place by yearend.
For now, rules banning use of electronic
devices
below
10,000
feet remain in effect.
FAA officials did
not respond to questions, and email messages
said they were unavailable due to the shutdown.
Passengers and electronics makers have long
sought to ease restrictions
on portable electronics use
on flights, and the committee’s effort is likely bring
the biggest update in years.
The new guidelines
pose some tricky questions
for air carriers. For example:
How will cabin crews deliver safety announcements
when passengers are plugged
into their own devices?
Reuters

Facebook expands ad
service for app developers
San FranciSco, 2 Oct
— Facebook Inc is expanding an advertising service
aimed at developers of
smartphone and tablet apps,
the social network’s latest
move to bolster its fastgrowing mobile business.
Facebook’s so-called
mobile app ads—which allow companies to promote
their mobile apps to Facebook’s 1.15 billion users
- will include new capabilities designed to boost the
amount of time that consumers use the third-party
apps, the company said on
Tuesday.
Since the start of the
year, more than 145 million third-party apps have
been installed by Facebook
users, said Deb Liu, Facebook’s director of platform
monetization,
providing
the company’s first public data about that portion
of its business. Roughly
8,400 advertisers used Facebook’s mobile app ads
in the second quarter, Liu
said.

That is a small group
relative to the more than
1 million total advertisers
that Facebook counts, but
analysts say that app developers represent an attractive and growing group of
customers for Facebook to
tap into. Smartphone apps,
designed for Apple Inc’s
iPhone or Google Inc’s Android-based phones, have
struggled to stand out in a
crowded field.
Facebook’s new mobile app ads will allow the
maker of a travel app to offer to promote an airfare or
hotel room, for example,
while a music app like Spotify could promote a band’s
new song. Previously, Facebook’s mobile app ads were
designed only to entice its
users to install a third-party
app on their smartphone or
tablet, but not to encourage
repeat visits to the app.
Shares of Facebook
have doubled since July, as
the company has increased
its mobile advertising revenue. —Reuters

The sun rises behind the entrance sign to Facebook
headquarters in Menlo Park before the company’s IPO
launch, on 18 May, 2012.—ReuteRs

Australia’s new prototype
vehicle to improve Earth
observation satellites’ accuracy
canberra, 2 Oct —
Australian scientists developed a prototype autonomous vehicle, “Outback
Rover,” to help scientists
to improve the accuracy of
Earth observation satellites
that provide valuable data
to Australia’s mining and
agricultural industries, according to a latest research
statement from CSIRO,
Australia’s national science
agency, on Thursday.
Just as the Mars Rover
Curiosity is gathering information about our neighboring planet, CSIRO’s
affectionately nicknamed
‘Outback Rover’ is helping
to calibrate satellites that
provide clues to Earth’s soil
condition, mineralogy and
vegetation.
According to the statement, accompanied by
researchers from Japan,

China, Israel and France,
CSIRO scientists recently
took the rover prototype on
a mission to Lake Lefroy —
a huge salt lake in remote
Western Australia — to see
if they can automate the satellite calibration process.
This is where information gathered by satellites
is matched against measurements taken on-ground
and compared for accuracy,
said Professor Arnold Dekker, Director of Earth Observation and Informatics at
CSIRO.
“Satellite data is used
for resource exploration,
environmental monitoring
and agricultural management such as soil mapping.
So it must be regularly
cross-checked to ensure
that observations are accurate,” Dekker explained.
Xinhua

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Thursday, 3 October, 2013

5

B US INE S S & H E A L TH

Asian shares up cautiously
on hopes for short
shutdown
Hong Kong, 2 Oct—
The US dollar treaded water
and most Asian stock markets edged up on Wednesday as investors appeared
hopeful the first partial US
government shutdown in
17 years will be short-lived
and not have a broader impact on the economy.
However, one immediate impact is a drop-off in
US economic data at a time
when the Federal Reserve
has already muddied expectations on when will it start
reducing its stimulus.
The failure of Congress to agree on a bill that
funds government operations meant up to one million workers were put on
unpaid leave, as Democrats
and Republicans fight over
President Barack Obama’s
healthcare programme.

On Tuesday, a survey
by the private Institute of
Supply Management (ISM)
showed robust US manufacturing activity, with expansion at the fastest pace
in almost 2-1/2 years.
But with the government shutdown, the news
didn’t have a big impact on
Asia. The MSCI’s broadest
index of shares outside Japan .MIAPJ000PUS up 0.4
percent. US S&P futures
eased 0.1 percent after the
cash index .SPX advanced
0.8 percent on Tuesday.
Japan’s Nikkei .N225,
the most expensive in Asia
based on price-to-earnings
ratios, came in for profittaking and was down 1.2
percent. Korean stocks
were up 0.4 percent and
Indonesian stocks .JKSE
gained 1.2 percent. China

The Pill’s link to
depression still unclear

A traffic controller at a constructing site is reflected on
a stock quotation board at a brokerage in Tokyo
on 1 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs
markets are closed until window of opportunity to
Tuesday for holidays.
investors looking to cut
“Markets are taking some of their emerging
it one day at a time with a market exposure, particunear-term impact unlikely larly if the US dollar fell
and any prolonged gov- further. Citi strategists also
ernment deadlock only in- believe shutting down the
creases the likelihood of US government reinforces
a delay in US tapering,” the chance that QE tapersaid Kenneth Akintewe, a ing will be delayed. Also,
Singapore-based portfolio they say an additional 10manager at Aberdeen Asset 15 basis points drop on the
Management.
10-year Treasuries to 2.50
If anything, the US percent “would not be inshutdown offered a brief conceivable”.—Reuters

Fonterra confirms talks with Danone over
botulism scare damages

wellington, 2 Oct—
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra confirmed
on Wednesday it was in
dispute resolution talks
with French food company
Danone over compensation
regarding the false botulism
scare in August.
Fonterra released a
brief statement follow-

ing media reports in New
Zealand that Danone was
claiming the recall in nine
countries of products containing the suspect whey
powder concentrate that
cost it 200 million euros
(270.24 million US dollars)
while Fonterra had offered
just 14 million NZ dollars
(11.57 million US dollars).

The statement did not
confirm or deny the reports, saying, “The discussions between Fonterra and
Danone had been confidential with a view to reaching
a mutually acceptable commercial outcome, however
some aspects of these discussions have been made
public this morning in the
press.”
Fonterra
said
it
“strongly denies any legal
liability to Danone in relation to the recall.”
Danone subsidiary Nutricia was forced to recall
infant formula made with
the suspect whey protein
concentrate. New Zealand
Prime Minister John Key
reportedly met Danone ex-

ecutives in Paris last month
and assured them the results
from investigations into the
recall would be made public.
The announcement at
the beginning of August
that a batch of Fonterra’s
whey protein concentrate
contained a bacterium
that could cause botulism
sparked an international
food safety alert before
tests confirmed a month
later that it was a different
and relatively harmless bacterium.
The New Zealand government has launched an
official inquiry to study the
causes of the incident and
how well it was handled.
Xinhua

Merck drug triggers response in
24 percent of lung cancer patients
new YorK, 2 Oct—
Early data from a small trial
of Merck & Co Inc’s experimental immunotherapy
cancer drug, known as MK3475, showed that about
a quarter of lung cancer
patients responded to the
treatment.
Data from the trial is
slated for presentation in
Sydney, Australia, later this
month at the World Conference on Lung Cancer,
Merck said in a statement
on Tuesday.
The antibody drug,
once known as lambrolizumab, is part of a new
class of compounds de-

signed to block the activity
of a receptor on immune
cells called programmed
death 1 or PD-1. The aim
of the drugs is to spur the
body’s own immune system
to attack cancer cells.
“The data for now
suggest relatively similar
response rates in NSCLC
(non-small cell lung cancer) for Merck’s ‘3475,
Bristol’s nivolumab and
Roche’s MPDL3280A as
single agents,” JP Morgan
analyst Chris Schott said
in a research note. “With
lung cancer representing
the largest potential market
for PD-1 therapy, we will

closely watch how data in
the space unfolds.”
Merck said results from
38 patients whose cancer
had stopped responding to
earlier rounds of treatment
showed that 24 percent
had an immune-system response to the drug. The trial
also showed that 21 percent
of patients experienced tumor shrinkage.
The most common side
effects seen in the trial were
fatigue, rash, itching and diarrhea. Earlier on Tuesday,
Merck said it would cut annual operating costs by $2.5
billion and eliminate 8,500
jobs. Its shares rose 2.4 per-

cent to close at $48.74 on
the New York Stock Exchange.
Schott said BristolMyers Squibb Co is still
leading the race to develop
PD-1 drugs, with more data
on nivolumab also expected
at the Sydney conference.
Reuters

new YorK, 2 Oct—
Young women using hormone-based contraceptives,
including the Pill, were no
more likely to be depressed
than other women in a new
US study.
In fact, the women in
their 20s and 30s on hormonal contraceptives had
fewer symptoms of depression than their peers using
other types of contraception
or no contraception at all,
researchers found.
“This counters somewhat some of the prevailing wisdom that hormone
contraceptive use in general
is associated with adverse
mental health outcomes in
women,” lead author of the
study Dr Katherine Keyes
of the Mailman School of
Public Health at Columbia
University in New York
told Reuters Health.
“When you look at it on
a national scale, certainly
there’s no evidence that at a

population level hormonal
contraceptive use is associated with an increased risk
of mood problems,” Keyes
added.
Still, Keyes and her
colleagues caution, it’s also
true that depressed women
are less likely to use hormone-based contraceptives.
Scientists have suspected that estrogen and
progesterone levels play a
role in mood disturbances,
but studies looking at the
effects of hormonal contraception on mood have
had mixed results, Keyes
and her team note in their
report, published .in the
American Journal of Epidemiology.
To investigate, they
looked at data on 6,654
sexually active women between 25 and 34 years old
who participated in four
surveys between1994 and
2008.
Reuters

Contraceptive pill Yasmin.

KKR buys stake in
appliance maker in biggest
China deal
Hong Kong, 2 Oct—
Investment company KKR
& Co LP (KKR.N) said it
had agreed to buy a 10-percent stake in Qingdao Haier
Co Ltd (600690.SS), gaining exposure to China’s
home appliances market
with its biggest investment
in the country to date.
The acquisition, which
is subject to shareholder
and regulatory agreement,
is KKR’s third Asian deal
in a week as it begins to invest its new $6 billion Asia
fund, the region’s largest
ever.
The companies did
not disclose the deal value,
but a person familiar with
the matter said New Yorkheadquartered KKR paid
around $550 million.
For the Chinese maker
of washing machines and
refrigerators the deal means
a link to a global investment
firm that could help it expand beyond its local mar-

ket. For KKR, the deal offers a stake in a firm that is
inexpensive compared with
peers and part of China’s
booming consumer market.
Foreign firms have
been keen to access China’s
home appliance sector,
which is forecast to grow
by about one-fifth in the
next two years to $105 billion, according to data from
consultancy Euromonitor.
KKR’s purchase comes
less than two months after
Whirlpool Corp (WHR.N),
the world’s largest maker of
home appliances, agreed to
buy a majority stake in China’s Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Co Ltd (600983.
SS) for $552 million.
In 2011, Carlyle Group
(CG.O) agreed to invest
up to $194 million for a 9
percent stake in Haier Electronics Group (1169.HK),
a company controlled by
Qingdao.
Reuters

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ADB further trims 2013-2014 forecast Annual debate of 68th session of UN
in developing Asia
General Assembly concludes
Manila, 2 Oct — The
Asian Development Bank
has further trimmed by 0.6
percentage point its 2013
economic growth forecast
for developing Asian countries, which include countries
such as China and India, to
6 percent and cut its growth
projections in 2014 to 6.2
percent, saying on Wednesday that moderate growth
in China and India plus fear
over rising US interest rates
have further dampened
growth in the region. Updating its Asia Development
Outlook report for this year,
the Manila-based bank said,
“Softer-than-expected economic activity in China and
India and jitters over the US
quantitative easing or QE
programme will weigh on
Asia and the Pacific’s growth
prospects in the near term.”
“Asia and the Pacific

2013 growth will come in
below earlier projections due
to more moderate activity
in the region’s two largest
economies and effects of QE
nervousness,” ADB chief
economist Changyong Rhee
said in a statement.
“While economic activity will edge back up in
2014, current conditions
highlight the need for the region to exercise vigilance to
safeguard financial stability
in the short term while accelerating structural reforms
to sustain economic growth
in the longer term,” the statement said.
The ADB predicted in
April that developing Asia
will grow 6.6 percent this
year, up from 6.1 percent
in 2012, and 6.7 percent
in 2014. In July, the ADB
trimmed by 0.3 percentage
point its 2013 growth fore-

cast in developing Asia to
6.3 percent and cut its 2014
forecast to 6.4 percent, saying tepid demand from major
industrial economies plus
slower growth in China’s
economy have dampened
growth prospects.
“Shifting expectations
on the timing of the windback of the US Federal
Reserve’s QE programme
sparked the recent exodus of
foreign capital from emerging markets, including India
and Indonesia,” the report
says.
While the sudden outflow of capital exposed vulnerabilities in the region, the
report says fears of a crisis
are “unwarranted,” citing
solid current account surpluses and ample foreign
exchange reserves in most
of the region’s developing
economies.—Kyodo News

Ambassador John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda and
current President of the United Nations General
Assembly.
General
Assembly
UniTed naTions, 2
Oct — The annual debate President John Ashe, at the
of the 68th session of the close of the debate, said that
UN General Assembly con- the member states are “recluded on Tuesday, during sponsible for the implemenwhich more than 130 heads tation of action by working
of state and government, as to create a post-2015 devewell as ministers, gave their lopment agenda”.
“We are the ones reviews on regional and intersponsible
for finding comnational affairs.

mon ground. And with the
directions and the reference
points laid before us this
week, it is now up to us to
identify our common agenda and move forward on it,”
he said.
With the theme on
“The Post 2015 Development Agenda: Setting the
Stage!”, the week-long general debate, which opened
on 24 September, provided
heads of state and other senior government officials an
opportunity to weigh in on
the shape of the world’s development strategy for the
period after the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
and a host of national and
global concerns, such as
poverty eradication, climate
change, human rights, and a
range of peace and security
issues.—Xinhua

Mexico refinery blast kills one,
injures five
Mexico ciTy, 2 Oct
— At least one people
was killed and another five
were injured on Tuesday
in an explosion at a crude
oil refinery in the central
state of Hidalgo operated
by Mexico’s state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos
(Pemex), the company said.
The blast occurred in
the afternoon at the Miguel
Hidalgo refinery located in
Tula, Hidalgo, some 100
kilometres north of the capital Mexico City.
In a statement, Pemex
reported that the accident
happened at 03:15 pm local

time (0915 GMT) at 5001 unit in the Hidros Plant
Unit I of the Miguel Hidalgo refinery while realizing
maintenance work.
The explosion came
during the scheduled startup of the Hidros 1 plant,
and work there has not been
suspended due to the accident, Pemex said.
The six injured are being treated at a Pemex hospital and a clinic operated
by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) that
is near the blast site, the
company said, adding that
one of the injured died later.

Pemex said the six victims of the accident, three
are workers of the company
and the other three are from
contractors, were treated in
hospital, but did not specify
the severity of injuries of
the five wounded.
The cause of the deadly
blast remains unknown and
authorities have given no
explanation.
Pemex is the biggest enterprise in Mexico,
the largest taxpayer in the
country and one of the largest oil companies in Latin
America.
Xinhua

TikriT, 2 Oct — Nearly
900 civilians were killed
across Iraq in September
as sectarian violence worsened, raising the death toll
for 2013 to more than last
year’s total, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Most of the bloodshed
was instigated by Sunni Islamist militants. In addition
to 887 civilians, 92 members of the security forces
were killed. September’s
toll brought the number
of people killed so far this
year to 5,740, exceeding the
toll for all of 2012, when
the first yearly increase in
civilian deaths was recorded since 2009 following the
withdrawal of US troops in
December 2011.

Overall, Baghdad was
the worst-affected governorate.
“As terrorists continue
to target Iraqis indiscriminately, I call upon all political leaders to strengthen
their efforts to promote na-

tional dialogue and reconciliation,” the UN envoy to
Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov.
After reaching a climax
in 2006-07, violence in Iraq
eased when Sunni tribesmen banded together and
found common cause with

Enlisted women march on the Cyprus Independence Day military parade in
Nicosia on 1 Oct, 2013. Troops paraded in the capital city on Tuesday to celebrate
the 53rd Independence Day of the country.—Xinhua

Civilians look at a damaged Shi’ite mosque a day after a
suicide bomb attack in Mussayab, 60km (40 miles) south
of the capital Baghdad, on 30 Sept, 2013.—ReuteRs

US troops to rout al-Qaeda,
forcing it underground.
But the group has been
reinvigorated this year by
growing resentment of
Iraq’s Shi’ite-led government, which minority Sunnis accuse of marginalizing
them since the overthrow of
Saddam Hussein in 2003.
The civil war in neighbouring Syria, where mainly Sunni rebels are fighting
to topple a leader backed
by Shi’ite Iran, has also put
strain on Iraq’s delicate intercommunal balance.
In the latest violence, a
suicide bomber drove up to
a police station in Tikrit and
blew himself up, killing at
least two guards.
Reuters

Japan PM to unveil
policies on cultural
exchanges with Asian
nations

Tokyo, 2 Oct — Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe said
on Tuesday he will unveil a
set of policies aimed at fostering cultural exchanges
with other Asian countries
when he meets with leaders
of Southeast Asian nations
in Tokyo in December.
“It is important for
Asian countries to maintain their diversity while
promoting cultural changes
from the standpoint of (creating) harmony,” Abe said
in an address at a symposium in the Japanese capital.
Abe will announce
the policies during the
special meeting between

himself and leaders of the
10 ASEAN member states
to demonstrate the importance Japan places on its
ties with the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations.
The envisioned policies are expected to reflect
measures compiled on
Monday by a forum of experts the government set
up to promote cultural exchanges with Asian countries.
ASEAN is comprised
of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,
Myanmar, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam.—Kyodo News

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Magway’s landmark pagoda needs urgent
preservation
Magway, 2 Oct—
Landmark Myathalun
Pagoda in Magway has
been damaged in the rush
of time.
The fault lines could
be seen clearly even on the

outer layer of the pagoda.
“It should be preserved
immediately as Myathalun
Pagoda is the historic one,”
a pilgrim said.
Magway Region
government has started

Electrification

Coal-fired power plant project inked for
Kengtung

Signing of agreement to run coal-fired power plant in Kengtung in Shan State
East under JV-B.O.T system in progress.—mna
Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Oct —
Hydropower Implementation Department of the

Ministry of Electric Power
and Lumpoondum Co
Ltd signed an agreement

Traffic Enforcement

Myanmar to deploy 1000
traffic police in SEA Games
period
y a N g o N , 2 Oct—
Myanmar Traffic Police
Corps will deploy 1000
traffic police to ensure
less traffic jams and traffic
accidents in upcoming
XXVII SEA Games to be
hosted in Myanmar.
“We would pay
attention to reduce traffic
in each host cities along
the route of athletes and
supporters. More than 1000
well-trained traffic police
will be deployed,” said
Police Col Kyaw Htway of

Traffic Police Corps.
Myanmar will host
XXVII SEA Games in
Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw,
Mandalay and Ngwehsaung
beach.
Some 200 traffic police
will be deployed in Nay Pyi
Taw, 260 in Mandalay, 600
in Yangon and 50 in Pathein
and Ngwehsaung.
They will pay attention
to easing the traffic jams and
prevent traffic accidents in
SEA Games period.
MMAL-Thun Wathan

yesterday to run a coal-fired
power plant in Kengtung in
Shan State East under JV-

preservation of the
Shwelinmyaw Pagoda on the
western bank of Ayeyawady
River with the construction
of the retaining wall.
MMAL-Kyaw Swa
(Magway)
B.O.T system.
The coal-fired power
plant project is expected
to complete in 2015. Upon
completion, the project will
generate 25 megawatt in the
first phase and from 400 to
500 megawatts in the second
phase.
It would also contribute
to the development of
Shan State and create job
opportunities, said Union
Minister for Electric Power
U Khin Maung Soe at the
signing ceremony.
Upon completion, the
project will supply power to
Shan State. The agreement
was inked by U Maw Thar
Htway, Director-General
of the Hydropower Implementation Department, and
Ms Sirilak Chaisri, President
of the Lumpoondum Co Ltd
at the Ministry of Electric
Power.— MNA

charge of International
Kanbawza Insurance
Mandalay Headquarters
U Win Oo formally opened
the office.
Managing Director of
the company U Nyo Myint
said the company would
provide internationalstandard insurance services

Human Resources

Upgraded BEMS inaugurated
in Ywangan Tsp

Members of Traffic Police Corps discharging duty
at a junction of main road
in Yangon.

Business
under the supervision of
the insurance industry
supervisory committee.
The company is
selling fire insurances,
vehicle insurance, life
insurance, and others.
MMAL-Tin Maung
(Mandalay)

Khin Maung Kyaw and
Village Administrator U
Tin Maung Maung cut the
ribbon to open the upgraded school building.
At the opening ceremony, the students performed dances and music.
Next, the Township
Administrator and the
Township Education Officer made speeches.
Townselders spoke
words of thanks.

Also present at the calls
were Chairman of Pyithu
Hluttaw International Relations Committee U Hla Myint Oo and officials.—MNA

Self-reliant
water supply
undertaken
yaNgoN, 2 Oct—Manhe
Village carried out supply
of water to the local people
from Shwehnget spring,
three miles east of Manhe
Village-tract between Mawlu
Region and Nantsiaung
region in Indaw Township
of Sagaing Region. Indaw
Township Development
Affairs Committee supplies
safe water to the local people
through 110 pieces of fourinch diametre for the first
time and laying of pipelines.
With regard to laying
of pipeline and water
supply tasks, each house
contributed K 40000 to the
fund for the project.
MMAL-Win Shwe
(Sagaing)
Commemorative
pennants were presented
to the officials.
Eighth standard students sang the nationalistic spirit.
Thanks to the newly-upgraded school,
the local students from
Kyaukkabyin and its surrounding areas get easy
access to middle school
education.
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Thursday, 3 October, 2013

Usher in conflict-sensitive
approach
Basic education is as important as the
higher education as it is the foundation of improving society. When the people are educated
they become stronger because they are more
confident and independent.This strength will
move them to do great thing and the country
as a whole will enjoy greater prosperity.
There is a growing acceptance that the
role of teachers who are the guide of the child
are increasingly becoming crucial, for education enables people to develop their critical
thinking and analysis skills in order to solve
problems rationally. However, learning has
received little attention from uneducated communities hitherto. So, learning is to be extensively introduced in orderto usher in a conflictsensitive approach.
The Ministry of Education has approved
UNESCO’s peace education project in northern Rakhine State. The project is meant to foster mutual respect for culture diversity at the
school level and will be jointly implemented
through funding support from Belgium government. The government of Myanmar and
international community have identified peace
education as one of the priorities to address
underlying causes of the communal tension in
Rakhine State.
As the project will also promote the longterm goal of education to overcome discrimination and exclusion through human rightsbased, quality education, capacity of school
teachers, students and their parents needs to
be enhanced to facilitate inclusive problemssolving processes and consensus-building
around community priorities and to strengthen the commitment to an inclusive civic national identity.
Only those who change themselves are the
wise and there is an increasing trend that only
with a large number of wise persons, will the
country be prosperous and be free from communal conflicts and on the right track of development.

Workshop on child protection
system held in Kangyidaunt Tsp
KangYidaunt, 2 Oct—
Jointly organized by the
Township Child Rights
Committee and the Child
Focused Network, a workshop on child protection
system was held at Ayeya
Thirithukha Hall in Kangyidaunt Township, Ayeyawady Region yesterday.
Ayeyawady
Region
Social Affairs Minister
Daw Khin Saw Mu gave an
opening speech at the workshop.
Head of the Social
Welfare Department of Ayeyawady Region U Kyaw
Win touched on undertakings of the department for

Myanmar spares no effort to overcome any
challenges, go ahead on journey that set out to
build nation of peace, democracy and prosperity
naY PYi taw, 2 Oct—The following is the continuation of the speech delivered by Union Minister for Foreign
Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin at the General Debate at the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New York
on 30 September.
Mr. President,
In the process of Myanmar’s transition to democracy, expectations are high
within the country as well as
from the international community. For the government
and people of Myanmar, the
task is daunting. There are
many challenges ahead. We
are still in the critical transition period. However, we
are resolute to march forward along our chosen path.
There will be no turning
back. But we will not take
anything for granted. It is
incumbent upon the government and people of Myan-

mar to be vigilant all times so
that we will not fall into the
trap of the detractors of the
reform process.
We need continued support and encouragement of
the international community. We always welcome
the friendly and constructive
advice and helping hands of
friends far and near in our nation building process. However, we are fully cognizant
of the fact that ultimately the
people of Myanmar themselves are responsible to decide their own destiny and
shape their own future.
Mr. President,

The government of
President U Thein Sein is
laying a solid foundation
for democracy, peace and
development for the people of Myanmar. Myanmar’s transition to democracy has been applauded
by observers as one of the
most promising efforts
of democratization in the
world today. The success
we have achieved so far
on the road to democracy
has been made possible
through the joint efforts of
the leadership and the people of Myanmar driven by
the strong and genuine de-

On 26 September, the
Chairman Sayadaw gave
words of advice and the Union Minister supplicated that
the Lord Buddha’s Desana
brings peace to the global
people. The Myanmar artistes demonstrated their
skills in dancing and sports
at the festival.At the closing
ceremony on 27 September,
the Union Minister urged all
to join hands for perpetuation
of the Buddhism.
While in Sri Lanka, the
Myanmar delegation met
with Tanzanian Sayadaw,
the vice-chairman of the
Sangha Maha Nayaka of
Sri Lanka and Mongolia abbots. They also visited Buddha Tooth Relic and Myanmar monastery in Kandy
Bo tree in Maha Kyaungdawya, Jetavana Pagoda and
Bhikkhu University in Anuradha and Myanmar Embassy.The Myanmar delegation arrived back here
by air on 30 September
evening.—MNA

Beijing, 2 Oct—Twenty inspectors from a Netherlands-based
chemical
weapons watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
has arrived in Syria.
They’re travelling to
Damascus to begin a complex mission of finding and
dismantling an estimated
1,000-ton chemical arsenal, as the civil war rages in
Syria.
The investigators say
members of the initial

group of 20 will meet with
counterparts from Syria’s
Foreign Ministry later on
Tuesday to begin planning
their work.
The United Nations
Security Council has ordered the OPCW to help
Syria destroy its chemical
weapons by mid-2014.
It gives inspectors
about nine months to complete their task. In a week,
the OPCW mission will be
expanded as more investigators arrive.—Xinhua

Asian Festival of the Buddhist Culture held in Kandy
of Sri Lanka from 25 to 27
September.
The delegations from
62 countries were present
at the event where the Sri
Lankan Prime Minister and
Union Minister U Hsan
Hsint offered alms to Sangharaja Sayadaws from Sri
Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Viet-

Nippon Foundation donates food
packets to IDPs of Mohnyin
MohnYin, 2 Oct—Nippon Foundation donated
packets of food through
Kachin State government
to IDP families at the relief
camps in Mohnyin Township on 27 September.
Township Administrator U Myat Yu accepted
packets of food for the IDP

families. Canned foods and
dried fish were provided to
12 household victims who
are accommodated at St
Patrick Church in Aungthabyay Ward of Mohnyin
Township and 21 households at Baptist Church in
Inndawgyi Nanmonkway
Village.—NLM-001

sire to change. The road
ahead is long and full of
challenges.
We would spare no effort to overcome any challenges and go ahead on the
journey that we have set out
to build a nation of peace, democracy and prosperity. As
we continue our journey, we
need the understanding, continued encouragement and
support of the Unites Nations
and the international community. We will never lose sight
of our goals and we are determined to fulfill the aspiration
of the people of Myanmar.
I thank you.

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President U Thein Sein...
(from page 1)
After the meeting, the
President his entourage went
to Kyaukpyu by special
flight.
At the hall of the Kyauk-

pyu Airport, the president
met with members of the
supporting committee for
development of Kyaukpyu
and townselders and clarified political, economic and

Lend a helping hand...
(from page 16)
He also received staff
of Myanmar embassy led
by U Kyaw Swa, Charge
d’ Affaires ai of Myanmar
Embassy and military attaché Brig-Gen Win Maung
at Shangri-la Hotel in Ma-

laysia.
During the meeting,
he called on them to protect and take care of Myanmar citizens in Malaysia
without racial and religious
discrimination and to lend a
helping hand to them when-

people of the both sides in
Thabyuchai Village, General Hla Htay Win said that
concerted efforts are being
made for restoring peace
and stability, rule of law
and carrying out rehabilitation tasks and pledged to attend to the needs of locals.
He presented household
equipment and makeshift
tents for victims through
townselders.
The
situation
in
Thandwe Township has
come to normalcy, it is
learnt.—Myawady

administrative reforms, the
people-centered administration and plans for development of Kyaukpyu.
The president and party
left Kyaukpyu for Thandwe
by special flight in the evening.—MNA
ever they need. Regarding
the role of the Tatmadaw
in Myanmar, it is walking
right on the road to democracy, he said.
The Myanmar delegation led by Senior General
Min Aung Hlaing arrived
back here this afternoon.
MNA

Local people in Thandwe urged to cooperate with
authorities to deter conflicts from erupting again
Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Oct
—While providing security to the local people in
Thandwe Township, Police
forces dispersed mobs after about 14 houses were
burnt down in Thabyuchai
Taungpaw Village in the
township yesterday.
Similarly, the police
fired warning shots as mobs
set on fire some houses near
Shwehlay Basic Education
High School around 3.25
pm yesterday.

A group intercepted
three motorcycles and attacked five people on board
on the Thandwe-Taungup
Road near Linnthi Village
in Shwehlay Village-tract
yesterday evening, leaving
four injured, and one is still
missing.
The injured were taken
to Thandwe Hospital.
One building in Kyikanye Village was set on
fire last night and the local
people and security forces
extinguished the fire and
controlled it around 1.30
am today.

The local authorities
have urged the local people
to cooperate with them to

deter conflicts from reoccurring.
MNA

Union FM felicitates Korean,
German counterparts
Nay Pyi Taw, 3 Oct—U Wunna Maung Lwin, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the
Union of Myanmar, has sent messages of felicitations to
His Excellency Mr. Yun Byung-se, Minister for Foreign
Affairs of Korea, on the occasion of National Foundation
Day of the Republic of Korea which falls on 3 October
2013, and His Excellency Mr. Guido WesterWelle, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, on the occasion of the Day of German Unity of the
Federal Republic of Germany, which falls on 3 October
2013.—MNA

Internet service to be cut for a while

General Hla Htay Win cordially greets local people of both sides in
Thabyuchai Village.—mna

No plan to enact law...
(from page 16)
decided to discuss it.
In responding to the
query raised by U Sai Hla
Kyaw from Langkho Constituency on “whether there
is a plan to conserve Inlay
region enacting a particular
law and how the authorities
concerned to monitor local
and foreign NGOs activities at Inlay region, Deputy
Minister for Environmental
Conservation and Forestry
U Aye Myint Maung said
that UNDP and NGOs are
working under the terms of
the contract. Their respective work proposals of local
NGOs are to be selected by
the technical advisory team

of a project.
He continued that there
are 12 local NGOs working
in the region cooperate with
UNDP in 2012-2013 FY
and eight local environmental conservation and social
organizations were added in
2013-2014 FY.
Under the supervision
of UNDP, Inlay Lake conservation and rehabilitation
tasks are carried out with the
use of budgets directly allocated by local NGOs, without the Union Government
allocating budgets, he added.
The deputy minister
continued that while longterm plan to restore Inlay
Lakeis being implemented

with Australia based International Development Convention Centre and UN-HABITAT’s Urban and Housing
Rehabilitation Programme,
efforts are being made for
planning Inlay region socioeconomic development
project in collaboration with
international hilly region
comprehensive development
convention center.
At present, there is no
plan to enact a particular law
on conserving Inlay region
because Inlay region is conserved in line with the existing laws on conservation of
Inlay region, he said.
The meeting came to an
end in the afternoon, and the
third-day session continues
tomorrow.—MNA

Myanma Posts and Telecommunications of the Ministry of Communications, Posts
and Telegraphs has implemented the project for improvement of communication network to increase the Internet speed.
Regarding the project, MPT in cooperation with the Information Technology Department and NTT Communications has upgraded and installed ISPs and National Gateways in Yangon, Nay Pyi Taw and Mandalay. New POPs which are linked with current
ISP Network in Yangon would be connected with new ISP Network at the duration
mentioned below and the MPT’s Internet service in the POP area would be stopped for
a while when the work is carried out.
No.
Date
Time
POP
Duration
1. 5-10-2013
From 02:00 am to 02:15 am Hanthawady POP
15 minutes
2. 8-10-2013
From 02:00 am to 02:15 am Mobile POP
15 minutes
3. 8-10-2013
From 02:15 am to 02:30 am Mayangon POP
15 minutes
4. 8-10-2013
From 02:30 am to 02:45 am Maunghtawlay POP 15 minutes
5. 9-10-2013
From 02:00 am to 02:15 am MICT POP
05 minutes
Myanma Posts and Telecommunications

Amyotha Hluttaw session...
(from page 16)
The ministry will upgrade 17-mile Mogaung
(Pahoke)-Kamaing
road
spending K 200 million
funds for special maintenance work, he added.
“I submitted this question to the ministry in July.
Vice-President Dr Sai
Mauk Kham, on his tour
of Kachin State, said the
Ministry of Construction
and the Ministry of Mines
will be responsible to upgrade the road. I would like
to stress the need of greater
transparency in handing

over the tasks to the companies. Close supervisions is
also needed to know whether they are carrying out the
tasks correctly. The Ministry of Construction and the
state government should
perform close supervision
on road inspection task,” U
San Pyae responded to the
deputy minister’s answer in
the interview with him.
Approval was sought
for extended formation of
members of political, economic and legal affairs
commission.
MNA

Yangon, 2 Oct—FOJO
Media Institute of Sweden
provided basic journalism
instructor course 2013 at
the hall of Myanmar Media
Library at the corner of
Merchant Street and 44th
Street, here, from 23 to 27
September with the aim of
developing journalism.
The course was jointly
conducted by Myanmar
Journalists Association and
Myanmar Journalists Network.
International Media
Support and FOJO Media
Institute gave lectures to the
trainees.
Ms Fiona of England
from FOJO Media Institute
lectured 16 trainees practically and theoretically with
the aim of enabling the
trainees to have efficient
knowledge in turning out
more journalists.
After the training, the

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Singaing, 2 Oct—
Villages along Panlaung
River were flooded due
to heavy rains as of 28
September.
The flood victims are
being accommodated at
the relief camps.
A total of 1112 houses from 13 villages were
flooded in the township,
and 1260 households became flood victims.

concluding ceremony and
dinner was held at Nanthida
Golden Duck restaurant in
Yangon.
Certificates of diploma

Police Captain
Naing Win presents
certificate of honour
to a village administrator.

A ltogether 2831 people from 786 households
from 674 houses along the
bank of Panlaung River
999 cattle were evacuated
to the safe places.
Local authorities,
members of Township
Police Force and Fire Brigade provided necessary
assistance to the flood
victims.
Kyemon-Tun Tun Naing

Trainees of basic journalism instructor course seen with trainers in documentary photo.

Drains dredged in Meiktila Industrial Zone

M eiktila , 2 Oct—The
dredging of drains were
carried out for prevention
of inundation on roads in
Meiktila Industrial Zone
in Meiktila District.
“Dredging the drains
started on 29 and 30
September. All drains
along 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th and
5 th streets will be dredged
for proper flow of water in
the rainy season. In heavy
rains, roads were inundated in the zone. So, the local people faced difficulty

Natural Disaster
Panlaung River swollen some
villages in Singaing Township

in transportation. Upon
completion of dredging works, we can easy

Village of Thazi Township and Htanaunggan
Village of Meiktila Township near Yangon-Mandalay Highway.
The industrial zone
comprises weaving, bean
grinding, dyeing, lathe
and other medium scale
industries in group.
Kyemon-579

Photo shows opening ceremony of Performing Arts
Competitions of Yangon East District.
spoke on the occasion.
The competition was

Myanmar Police Force Day observed in Thanatpin Township
thanatpin, 2 Oct—A
ceremony to mark 49th Anniversary Myanmar Police
Force Day was held at the

office of Thanatpin Township :Police Force in Bago
District in Bago Region on
1 October morning. Head

of Thanatpin Police Station
Police Captain Naing Win
explained emergence of
Myanmar police force in
its history.
Next, Township Administrator U Thein Win
presented certificates of
honolur to outstanding
police members and Police Captain Naing Win
and officials, gifts and
certificates to ward and
village administrators for
their excellent performance
in the rule of law tasks
in cooperation with the
police force and prizes to
outstanding students in the

formally opened by Yangon
Region Minister for Finance
and Revenue Daw San San
Nwe and Deputy Commissioner U Hlaing Soe Than of
Yangon East District General
Administration Department.
At the opening ceremony, famous vocalists and
professional performers
entertained the guests with
songs and dances.
Kyemon-Than Maung
(Yankin)

Take preventive measures
against dengue hemorrhagic fever

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Japan to avoid power
shortages in winter without
nuclear power
Tokyo, 2 Oct—Japan
is expected to avoid power
shortages in the winter even
if all of the country’s 50
reactors remain offline, an
estimate provided by the
Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry showed on
Tuesday.
“In all the areas serviced by nine regional utilities (that own nuclear power
plants), supply capacity is
expected to exceed demand
by 3 percent, the minimum
level to ensure stable electricity supply,” METI said
in a document presented to
a panel of experts to discuss
the country’s electricity
situation.
Hokkaido
Electric
Power Co, which supplies
power to the country’s
northernmost main island,
is expected to secure 6.9
percent more power supply capacity than anticipated demand in February,
or about 390,000 kilowatts,

when the use of heating will
likely hit a peak.
But the government
will consider measures to
deal with possible emergency situations in the Hokkaido region as only a limited amount of power can
be delivered from Japan’s
main island of Honshu.
Based on the discussions by the panel, the government plans to decide
necessary
power-saving
measures for the winter in
the end of October at the
earliest.
As done this summer,
the government is likely
to call on the public and
companies to cooperate in
saving power, instead of
setting numerical powersaving targets.
The levels of extra
power supply capacities of
Kansai Electric Power Co
and Kyushu Electric Power
Co are estimated at 3 percent, respectively, but there

will likely be room for other utilities to send electricity to Kansai and Kyushu
utilities.
Thermal plants are
making up for the loss of
atomic energy following
the devastating accident at
Tokyo Electric Power Co’s
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
complex in 2011.
All 50 commercial
reactors in Japan are now
offline, after the only two
operating reactors shut
down for regular checkups
in western Japan in September.
More than 10 reactors
are now being checked as
to whether they are safe
enough to resume operation
in light of new nuclear regulations introduced in July.
But none of them are likely
to restart by the end of this
year because the review
procedures are expected to
take time.
Kyodo News

Newly-married couples ride bicycles during a group wedding in Boxing County of
Binzhou City, east China’s Shandong Province, on 1 Oct, 2013. Altogether 35 couples took part in the traditional wedding ceremony on the first day of the national
holidays.—Xinhua

4.7 magnitude quake hits central
New Zealand
WellingTon, 2 Oct—
An earthquake measuring
4.7 magnitude was felt in
New Zealand capital on
Wednesday morning. There
was no reports of casualties
or damages.
The moderate quake
hit just before 5.30 am on

Wednesday local time (at
16:30 GMT on Tuesday),
New Zealand government
geological agency GNS
Sciences said.
It was centred 30 km
east of Seddon in Cook
Strait at a depth of 22 km.
It was felt across Marl-

Japanese PM greets Hun Sen for
being re-elected as Cambodian
Prime Minister

Debris of residents’ houses that razed to the ground by
a fire is seen at West Kelapa Gading in north Jakarta,
Indonesia, on 1 Oct, 2013. A fire on Tuesday morning
wiped out more than 200 homes in the densely
populated area of north Jakarta. No casualties have
been reported. The cause of the incident is under
investigation.—Xinhua

Vietnam hosts 24th regional
meeting on vocational,
technical education
hanoi, 2 Oct—The 24th
Governing Board meeting of
the Regional Centre for Vocational and Technical Education and Training under
the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO VOCTECH)
opened in Vietnam’s northern Quang Ninh Province on
Tuesday.
Addressing the opening
ceremony, Vietnamese Deputy
Minister of Education and
Training Bui Van Ga said
that in its role as chairman
of the 2013 SEAMEO, Vietnam has put forth many
action plans and cooperated actively with others in
SEAMEO VOCTECH re-

search programmes. With its
contributions, Vietnam wants
SEAMEO VOCTECH to
become a trusted address in
professional education in
the Southeast Asian region,
Vietnam’s state-run news
agency quoted the Vietnamese official as saying.
To achieve its socioeconomic
development
goals, the Vietnamese government is completing a project to reform its educational
system in the context that the
country has developed the
socialist- orientated market
economy and promoted international integration, said
the deputy minister.
Xinhua

phnom penh, 2 Oct—
Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe extended his
congratulations to Hun Sen
for being re-elected as the
Prime Minister of Cambodia
for another five-year term
after his ruling party won
the 28 July election.
“On behalf of the government and the people of
Japan, I would like to express my congratulations to
you for being re-elected as
the Prime Minister of Cambodia and for the formation
of a new government,” he
said in a message to Hun
Sen that was released to the

media by Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on
Tuesday.
“I wish to see further
progress in the parliamentary democracy through
dialogue and cooperation
between the ruling party and
the opposition party so that
Cambodia (can) implement
various measures steadily
toward economic and social
development under your
leadership,” he said.
Abe added that Japan
would continue to actively
support Cambodia in its nation-building efforts.
“I will actively coop-

erate with you in order to
make closer ties between
Japan and Cambodia and to
strengthen cooperation in
seeking solutions to issues
on international arenas,” he
said.
Hun Sen, 61, who had
been in power for 28 years,
was re-elected as the prime
minister of Cambodia on 24
September by his ruling party’ s formed parliament as
the opposition party’s lawmakers boycotted the parliamentary session since they
refused to accept the results
of the 28 July election.
Xinhua
Citizens
read books
at the Heilongjiang
Library in
Harbin,
capital of
northeast
China’s
Heilongjiang
Province,
on 2 Oct,
2013. Many
people came
to libraries to study
during the
national
holidays.
Xinhua

borough and in Wellington.
The early morning
shake is another in a long
series of earthquakes to hit
the area since July, with the
biggest being a magnitude
6.5 quake on 21 July and a
6.6 quake on 16 August.
Xinhua

Taipei
customs
seize 20 kg
of TNT at
airport
Taipei, 2 Oct—Taipei customs have seized
20 kilograms of TNT at a
Taipei Airport from a flight
from Hong Kong but the recipients of the package told
police that the explosives
were intended for use as a
pyrotechnical stage prop,
officials said on Tuesday.
The Criminal Investigation Brigade said they
have taken samples of the
explosives and are awaiting
test results.
Taipei Customs officials said the explosives
were found in a package
sent via express delivery,
with accompanying documentation listing the contents as lighting fixtures.
Customs
officials
found a bomb-like device
with fuses attached after
screening the package by
X-ray and opened the package.
An unnamed recipient
of the package told police
investigators that the explosives were intended as
a stage prop for television
filming.
Kyodo News

THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR
MINISTRY OF ENERGY
MYANMA OIL AND GAS ENTERPRISE
(INVITATION FOR OPEN TENDER)
(9/2013)

Open tenders are invited for supply of the following respective items in United States
Dollars and Myanmar Kyats.
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Tender No
Description
Qty
Remark
(1) IFB -073(2013-2014)

Fred L’E strange and Ida L’E strange

(2) IFB -074(2013-2014)

got engaged

(3) IFB -075(2013-2014)

on Thursday, September Twenty-six

(4) DMP/L-033(2013-2014)

in the year Two Thousand and Thirteen

(5) DMP/L-034(2013-2014)

CLAIMS DAY NOTICE

(6) DMP/L-035(2013-2014)

MV MALACCA HIGHWAY VOY NO (166S)

Consignees of cargo carried on MV MALACCA
HIGHWAY VOY NO (166S) are hereby notified that
the vessel will be arriving on 3.10.2013 and cargo will
be discharged into the premises of M.I.P.L where it
will lie at the consignee’s risk and expenses and subject
to the byelaws and conditions of the Port of Yangon.
Damaged cargo will be surveyed daily from 8 am
to 11:20 am and 12 noon to 4 pm to Claims Day now
declared as the third day after final discharge of cargo
from the Vessel.
No claims against this vessel will be admitted after
the Claims Day.
SHIPPING AGENCY DEPARTMENT
MYANMA PORT AUTHORITY
AGENT FOR: M/S K. LINE
Phone No: 256924/256914

dropped 5.1 percent.
Chrysler Group LLC
said its September sales
rose by 0.7 percent. The
company sold 976 more
vehicles compared with the
same month a year ago.
Chrysler, Dodge and
Ram Truck brands posted
sales increases in September from the same month in
2012, while Fiat and Jeep
brands both saw sales drop
from September 2012.
US monthly auto sales
have been posting year-onyear gains for more than
two years, but analysts are
projecting that trend will
end with September’s sales.
Analysts are projecting a
decline by as much as 4.4
percent, according to the
Detroit News.
The main driver of
the anticipated drop is two
fewer selling days in September 2013 compared with
the month in 2012. The big
Labour Day sales weekend
typically is included in September auto sales, but this
year was included in August figures due to reporting
on a sales month vs. calendar month basis.—Xinhua

US big three automakers
sales slowdown in
September
ChiCago, 2 Oct —
Ford and Chrysler’s sales
rose modestly in US market
in September, while General Motors’ sales fell 11
percent in a month that had
two fewer selling days than
September 2012, according
to figures released on Tuesday. General Motors said
its September auto sales
of 187,195 slid 11 percent
year-on-year, while its retail sales fell 6 percent and
fleet sales dropped by 27
percent.
GM’s Buick and Cadillac brands posted sales
increases for the month of
6.5 percent and 9.9 percent,
respectively, while Chevrolet sales declined 14.7 percent and GMC sales fell by
9.7 percent.
Ford said its US September auto sales rose 5.8
percent. Fusion sedan sales
jumped 62 percent in September while sales of the
Fiesta subcompact rose
29 percent over the same
month in 2012, setting a
September sales record.
Ford brand sales were up
6.3 percent for the month,
while Lincoln brand sales

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German TV maker
Loewe files for insolvency
FrankFurt, 2 Oct —
German’s TV set maker
Loewe files for insolvency
on Tuesday and a request
for self management in
bankruptcy is already delivers to the district court
Coburg, local newspaper
Handelsblatt reported.
The company said it
only has sufficient funds
to keep operations running
until the end of this year,
which means that it has to
find a new investor before
the end of the year to avert
closure.
The TV maker filed for
protection from its creditors
in July. Since then, it has
been looking for an investor
to speed up its restructuring
programme.
Loewe fell into difficulties after it failed to keep

up with competition from
rivals like Samsung, LG
Electronics and Chinese TV
set makers.
A significant move
was made by Loewe in July
with setting up a strategic
partnership with China’s
Hisense International Co,
Ltd in July. Yet the Chinese TV maker didn’t bring
any fresh money to Loewe,
leaving it still looking for
an investor.
Founded in Berlin in
1923, Loewe is a premium
flat-screen TV set producer
which also makes audio
speakers and home entertainment systems.
Sales of the company
fell to 250 million euros
(328 million US dollars)
in 2012 from 374.3 million
euros in 2011.—Xinhua

Higher electricity
costs, copayment
continue squeeze
in Spain
Madrid, 2 Oct — The
majority of Spanish households face a rise of 3.1 percent in their electricity bills
as of Tuesday.
The price rise comes
as a result of the quarterly
auction of electricity carried out last week, where
the providers had to pay 7.6
percent more for energy,
with 3.1 percent of that being passed on to customers.
It is the second price
rise Spaniards have had to
face in the past two months,
as it follows on from an
increase of 1.2 percent in
August as the government
sanctioned a one-off payment. Meanwhile prices
had also risen by 3 percent
at the start of the year.
Electricity prices affect
around 20 million homes,
as well as small and medium sized companies and are
the only ones to be revised
directly by the government,
which fixes them every
three months by calculating
the cost of energy and the
tolls to be applied, before
then adding taxes onto the
total cost.
This rise in electricity costs comes into effect
the day after the government published its budget
for 2014. One of the most
contentious aspects of the
budget, along with a reduction in spending in the public health service, was the
decision to raise pensions
by just 0.25 percent in the
coming year.—Xinhua

Tourists go boating on the West Lake in Hangzhou,
capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, on 1 Oct,
2013, the first day of the seven-day national holidays.
Xinhua

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Lindsay Lohan’s
parents banned from
TV show

Pierce Brosnan joins campaign to
save dogs
Los AngeLes, 2 Oct—Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan is backing
a new campaign to reduce the number of dogs and cats who end up in shelters.
The 60-year-old actor has teamed up with TV dog behaviourist Cesar
Millan to help raise awareness of the importance of having pets neutered
and spayed to stop unwanted pooches from being put down, reported Us
magazine.
Brosnan has designed artwork for vehicle licence plates to raise funds
for the cause, with profits from the sales going towards programmes
throughout the state of California.
“The most humane way not to kill a dog is to spay and neuter.
When we kill four to five million dogs nationally per year, what that
says about our behaviour is that we have become a disposable society. To me, a spay and neuter campaign is just as important as the
Buckle Up campaign; it saves lives,” Milan said.
PTI
Pierce Brosnan has designed artwork for
vehicle licence plates to raise funds
for the cause.

Adele to play Dusty Springfield in biopic?

Adele wants to play Dusty Springfield, the
legendary singer who passed away in 1999.

LonDon, 2 Oct—Singer Adele is reportedly in
talks to play English pop

singer Dusty Springfield in
a new biopic.
The 25-year-old Someone like you singer would
portray the legendary singer
who passed away in 1999
at the age of 59 after giving several hits like Wishin
and Hopin and I Just Don’t
Know What to Do with
Myself, reported Daily
Telegraph.
“Adele is attached to a
project, but it’s in the early
stages of development,” a
source said.
Adele is also reportedly set to appear in another
movie called The Secret
Service to be released in
November 2014. It is rumoured that former football
star David Beckham, Lady
Gaga and Taylor Swift will
also appear in the film.
PTI

Taylor Swift doesn’t rule out dating celebrities
Los AngeLes, 2 Oct—
Despite having her share
of heart breaks, singer
Taylor Swift does not rule
out the idea of dating celebrities in the future.
Swift
has
dated
known names like Joe Jonas, Harry Styles and actor
Taylor Lautner in the past,
reports dailymail.co.uk.
“You can’t say ‘I’m
never gonna date a highprofile person in the arts!
But whoever I date, famous or not — whether
I ever date again! — all
chaos will break loose,”
said Swift to Glamour
magazine.
The Love Story singer
believes when two people
are perfect for each other,
they tend to overlook the
mistakes.

“Here’s what I’ve
learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough
natural chemistry with
someone, you overlook
every single thing that you
said would break the deal,”
said Swift.
But she has not found
her perfect match.
“I’ve seen my friends
take someone back after
they’ve cheated because
they fit perfectly. But I
don’t know, because
I’ve never had a
perfect fit with
someone,” she
said.
PTI

Los AngeLes, 2 Oct—Troubled actress Lindsay
Lohan’s parents have reportedly been banned from appearing on the actress’ upcoming reality TV show.
The Mean Girls star, who successfully completed
a 90-day stint in rehab in July (2013), has struck a deal
with Oprah Winfrey’s OWN Network to film her
struggle to rebuild her life.
It has now emerged the
star’s estranged parents, Michael and Dina Lohan, have
been axed from the series
because producers feared
their presence would confuse viewers, reported TMZ
Online.
According to editors,
the makers of the show have
vowed to focus entirely on
Lohan’s recovery rather than
her family issues.
The actress is report
reportedly set to receive
a USD 2 million
paycheck for
the series.
PTI

Lindsay Lohan is reportedly set to receive a USD 2
million paycheck for the series.

new DeLhi, 2 Oct—Hollywood action hero Sylvester
Stallone was reportedly offered a role in an upcoming
Bollywood film, but he refused the project.
The 67-year-old declined the offer as it was
clashing with the shooting
schedule and release of his
forthcoming film Escape

Plan, said a statement.
In 2009, Stallone made
his Bollywood debut with
Kambakkht Ishq. He featured alongside actors Akshay Kumar and Kareena
Kapoor in the film. Escape
Plan, an action thriller
that also features Arnold
Schwarzenegger will release on 25 October.—PTI

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Ramires double leads Chelsea
to four-goal romp

Chelsea’s Ramires (top C) celebrates with his team
mates Branislav Ivanovic (top R) and Juan Mata (L)
after scoring a goal as Steaua Bucharest’s goalkeeper
Ciprian Tatarusanu reacts during their Champions
League match at the National Arena in Bucharest
on 1 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs
Bucharest, 2 Oct—
Brazil midfielder Ramires
scored twice as Chelsea got
their Champions League
Group E campaign back

on track with a convincing
4-0 win over Steaua Bucharest at the National Arena
on Tuesday. Slick-passing
Chelsea dominated from

start to finish and could
have won by a bigger margin.
The visitors went ahead
in the 20th minute when
Ramires lifted the ball over
the goalkeeper from three
metres and they made it 2-0
with an own goal from Daniel Georgievski just before
halftime. Ramires made it
3-0 with a thumping finish
soon after the interval after
the dangerous Andre Schurrle surged down the left and
found Oscar who teed up
his fellow countryman.
Frank Lampard completed the rout with a low
shot into the corner from
18 metres after good work
by substitute Willian on 90
minutes.
Chelsea have three
points from two games in
the group while Steaua are
bottom on zero.—Reuters

Ozil’s magic leads Arsenal to
2-0 win over Napoli

LonDon, 2 Oct—
Mesut Ozil bewitched
Napoli to conjure
up a 2-0 Champions League win
for Arsenal on
Tuesday and end
the Italian side’s
unbeaten start to the season.
The Germany midfielder scored the opening goal,
his first for Arsenal, with a
superb left-foot effort from
the edge of the penalty area
after eight minutes and set
up Olivier Giroud for Arsenal’s second after 15.
Any lingering doubts
that the former Real Madrid
player was worth the 43
million pounds ($60 million) that Arsene Wenger
paid for him in August were
swept away in a magical
first-half display full of precision passing, great move-

Evergreen Giggs on brink of Champions
League record

LonDon, 2 Oct—Manchester United’s poor start
to the season has left the
club reeling and new boss
David Moyes under scrutiny
but Ryan Giggs will offer a
reassuring presence when
he reports for Champions
League duty in Ukraine this
week.
The 39-year-old Welshman trained at the club’s
Carrington training ground
on Tuesday before boarding
yet another plane to yet another European city.
Should Moyes turn to
the evergreen midfielder
on Wednesday against
Shakhtar Donetsk, Giggs
will register a record 145th
appearance in Europe’s premier competition (including qualifiers), moving him
ahead of former Real Madrid striker Raul in the appearance list.
Giggs, who won 13
Premier League titles and

Manchester United’s
Ryan Giggs reacts
during their English Premier League
soccer match against
Liverpool at Anfield,
Liverpool, northern
England on 1 Sept,
2013.— euteRs
2013.—R
two Champions Leagues
under former manager Alex
Ferguson, is now part of
Moyes’s coaching staff but
has plenty to offer on the
pitch.
“Really? Wow. I didn’t
know that,” was Giggs’s reaction in an interview on the
club’s website when told of
the milestone.
“It’s a great competi-

tion and I’ve been lucky
enough to win it twice and
play a lot of memorable
matches.
“There have been so
many great players to have
graced the tournament and
Raul is up there as one of
the very best—he has a
great goalscoring record
and he’s won it three times.”
“If I do pass him it will

be a great source of pride for
me,” added Giggs, United’s
record appearance maker.
The records have piled
up for Giggs down the years
and with five appearances
for United this season it
is not inconceivable that
he could reach 1,000 club
games.
“I just can’t believe
he’s nearly 40. In my playing days everyone just assumed you were finished
when you reached 30,
but there he is, still going
strong,” said United great
Bobby Charlton, whose
appearance record Giggs
memorably
surpassed
in United’s Champions
League final win against
Chelsea in 2008.
“As well as being a
great player, Ryan is a terrific talker too, and that part
of his game will be important now that he’s part of the
coaching staff.—Reuters

Dortmund stun Marseille 3-0 with Lewandowski double

Borussia Dortmund’s Marco Reus (C) celebrates with
his team mates after scoring a goal against Olympique
Marseille during their Champions League Group F
match at BVB stadium in Dortmund on 1 Oct, 2013.
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DortmunD,
(Germany), 2 Oct—Last season’s runners-up Borussia Dortmund cruised
past Olympique Marseille
3-0 on Tuesday with two
goals from forward Robert Lewandowski to get
their Champions League
campaign back on track
after an opening Group F
defeat.
Setting a quick pace
from the start, Dortmund
took a 19th-minute lead
when the Polish striker

completed a lightning-fast
break.
Marco Reus added a
lucky second goal in the
52nd when he sailed a long
free kick into the box and
Marseille keeper Steven
Mandanda let it slip through
after an awkward bounce.
Lewandowski sealed
their win with his 13th goal
in 21 Champions League
appearances when he converted a spot kick after
Reus was brought down in
the 79th.—Reuters

ment and feints, and Aaron
Ramsey played his full part
as the sorcerer’s apprentice.
Arsenal’s second win
after their 2-1 success in
Marseille put them on six
points in Group F alongside
Borussia Dortmund, who
beat Marseille on Tuesday.
Arsenal and Dortmund
meet in the next two rounds
of games.
Reuters
Arsenal’s Mesut Ozil (C) controls the ball
during their Champions League match against
Napoli at the Emirates stadium in London
on 1 Oct, 2013.—ReuteRs

Djokovic, Nadal kick off
race to top ranking with
easy wins
Beijing, 2 Oct—World
number one Novak Djokovic and the man who can
dislodge him from the top
spot by next week, Rafa
Nadal, kicked off their
China Open campaign with
straight set victories on
Tuesday.
Defending champion
Djokovic needed just 54
minutes to crush his Czech
opponent Lukas Rosol 6-0,
6-3 without hitting a single
double fault in a dominant
first round display.
The Serb, aiming for
his fourth China Open title in five years after missing the 2011 tournament
through injury, improved
his perfect tournament record to 15-0 after converting four of his eight break
points against Rosol.
“I didn’t want to under-estimate my opponent
knowing that he had few
big wins in his career and
he has a big serve,” Djokovic told the ATP website
(www.atpworldtour.com)
referring to his opponent
who had caused one of the

biggest upsets in the sport
when he beat Nadal at
Wimbledon 15 months ago.
“I needed to be very
fresh from the start and try
to bring that intensity, positive intensity to the court,
and that’s what happened.
“I really feel special
in China in relation to the
fans, because I don’t get to
see that often. The fans basically wait for you every
single day and night in the
hotel,” said Djokovic who
takes on Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in the second
round.
Nadal had to work
longer to subdue Colombian qualifier Santiago Giraldo 6-2, 6-4 in 90 minutes
at Beijing’s National Tennis Stadium. The Spaniard,
who needs to reach the final
in Beijing to reclaim the
number one ranking, had
no problem bagging the
first set but Giraldo put up a
stiffer resistance in the second before going down.
Nadal meets Philipp
Kohlschreiber of Germany
next.—Reuters
Serbia’s Novak
Djokovic returns
a shot during his
match against
Lukas Rosol
of the Czech
Republic at the
China Open
tennis
tournament in
Beijing
on 1 Oct, 2013.
Reuters

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FIFA likely to delay decision on

2022 World Cup dates

London, 2 Oct—Despite widespread speculation that FIFA will vote to
switch the dates of the 2022
World Cup on Friday, soccer’s world governing body
will probably delay making a decision and instead
set up a task force to analyse the huge implications
of moving the tournament
from the searing heat of the
Middle East summer.
Although the executive
committee could agree in
principle to move the dates
of the World Cup, FIFA
vice-president Jim Boyce
told Reuters it should not
rush into a decision and he
wanted a task force set up
to examine the issue.
“We will discuss when

The FIFA
World Cup
trophy is
displayed after
its arrival at
Juan Santamria Airport in
Alajuela on
27 Sept, 2013.
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the World Cup will be held
(and) we will also consider
the plight of immigrant
workers in Qatar whose
harsh living and working
conditions made headlines
last week,” he said.
Thomas Bach, the new
president of the International Olympic Committee
(IOC), said he doubted the
World Cup would clash
with the Winter Olympics
in 2022, if the finals were
moved from their traditional June and July dates, adding that FIFA was likely to
opt for November 2022, if it
switched.
In a development related to the vexed situation regarding the awarding of the
2018 World Cup to Russia

Haikou, 2 Oct—Rescuers on Tuesday saved 14
fishermen, retrieved four
bodies and are continuing
their search for 58 others
missing in the South China
Sea after Typhoon Wutip has
sunk three fishing boats since
Sunday afternoon.
A total of 88 fishermen and their boats, all from
south China’s Guangdong
Province, went missing near
Shanhu Island in the Xisha
Islands, about 330 km from
China’s island Province of
Hainan. Fourteen survivours
were rescued on Monday.
Zhang Jie, a spokesman with the Hainan Maritime Affairs Bureau, said on

Tuesday that 22 vessels and
four airplanes are still combing the sea for more survivors.
Huang Honghui and
Gong Zhimei were among
the 14 rescued on Tuesday.
The two were drifting amid
big waves in a life raft when
they were spotted by rescuers
on a helicopter at 11:47 am.
“I was thinking about
my son. It was the thought
of family and life that supported me. Huang and I kept
encouraging each other. We
never gave up hope,” Gong
said. “I hadn’t seen such big
waves in my life. The ship
was quickly sunk.”
Xinhua

14 fishermen rescued,
four dead, 58 missing
after Typhoon Wutip

Rescuers talk with two fishermen after they were saved
from the sinking ship “Yuetaiyu 62116” in south
China’s Hainan Province, on 1 Oct, 2013.
Xinhua

and the 2022 finals to Qatar
on the same day in December 2010, Michael Garcia,
the head of the investigative unit of FIFA ethics
committee, will tour all the
countries involved in the
bidding processes, he was
quoted as saying in France
Football on Tuesday.
Garcia, a former US
Attorney in New York, is
examining allegations of
corruption in the voting
that led to the awarding of
the two World Cups.
A highly-placed FIFA
source told Reuters the
game’s world governing
body now had to grapple
with a huge political, social
and financial problem of its
own making.
“This is because the
executive committee members who awarded the finals to Qatar in December
2010 ignored recommendations from FIFA’s own
inspection report group that
ranked Qatar second from
bottom among the five contenders. They should never
have chosen Qatar. It was
flawed from day one.”
Boyce, who joined the
executive committee six
months after the vote was
taken, told Reuters in a telephone interview from his
home in Belfast: “I don’t
think there is any possibility of a decision being taken
about moving the World
Cup this week.—Reuters

dubLin, (Ohio), 2
Oct—Zach Johnson joined
up with his United States
team mates ahead of this
week’s Presidents Cup despite suffering from the
flu for the past three days,
United States captain Fred
Couples said on Tuesday.
The 2007 Masters
champion arrived in Columbus a day after his team
mates, missing the official
team photo taken earlier on
Tuesday not expected practice with the team.
“Zach got in (this
morning), he had what he
considers the two- or three
day flu, which was bad
enough that he couldn’t
fly and even be here,” said
Couples.
“He’ll be .... I’m going
to say fine. I haven’t seen
him but we’ve talked to him
a few times, so he’s doing
okay.

US team member Tiger Woods hits from a bunker on
the fourth hole during the first practice round for the
2013 Presidents Cup golf tournament at Muirfield
Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio on 1 Oct, 2013.
ReuteRs
“He said he wants to of the tournament against
come out, chip and putt. We the Internationals and start
haven’t really addressed as favourites again at Jack
that yet, but he’ll play to- Nicklaus’s Muirfield Vilmorrow and he’s ready to lage course.
Couples
suggested
go.”
The United States have Phil Mickelson and Keegan
won the last four editions Bradley are also expect-

ed to team-up again after
forming a duo at last year’s
Ryder Cup.
“Keegan and Phil are
already a great team together, that worked out last year
at the Ryder Cup. No one
would have thought that.
But they make a good team
and that’s kind of how it
works, just like Stricker and
Tiger did a few years ago,”
he said.
Stricker, 46, could
partner with Woods again
at some stage in the tournament although Couples also
suggested the former may
be paired with rookie Jordan Spieth.
PGA Championship
winner Jason Dufner is
another potential playing
partner for Woods, who
was named this week as the
PGA Tour’s Player of the
Year.
Reuters

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Phakant motorway raised
by U San Pyae of Constituency No (7) that Pa-hta-ma
Shwe Naga construction
company carried out special
maintenance work following the instruction of the
ministry to start road works

as peace and stability returned to Kachin State, with
the result that MogaungPhakant trip that used to
take passengers four or five
days, now takes about four
and a half hours.
(See page 9)

Bay Bulletin
Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Oct—According
to the observation at 5.30 hrs MST today, the low pressure area over Northwest Bay of Bengal has moved to the
Orissa coast, India, announced by
Meteorology and Hydrology Department.—MNA

Warning of Hightide
Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Oct—The Public
are hereby informed that exceptionally
high spring of from 20.3 feet to 20.9
feet high above the datum are expected
to occur in the Yangon river during the
period 5th to 9th October 2013. That
it is not serious because the high tide
reached up to 21.7 feet high above datum in the year 2011-2012 and that the
warning is issued only because high tide
reaches over 20 feet high above datum,
announced by Meteorology and Hydrology Department.
MNA

Thursday, 3 October, 2013

Easy access to recommendation on entry
visa for foreign technicians, entrepreneurs
In meeting with businessmen and responsible persons of associations, they requested the private sector development subcommittee to facilitate the process of applying for
entry visa and residence permit by foreigners who will be appointed as technicians for
the businesses of Myanmar citizens and foreign investors.
Issuance of letters of recommendation on the application for entry visa and residence permit by foreign technicians and foreign entrepreneurs will be carried out as
follow:(a) The Ministry of Commerce is responsible to make recommendation on entry
visa and residence permit for foreigners and their families and foreign employees in connection with tradition activities.
(b) The Directorate of Investment and Companies Administration is responsible
to make recommendation on entry visa and residence permit for foreigners
and their families and foreign employees of Myanmar and foreign companies
registered at the DICA.
For further information, please contact the following addresses.
(a) Ministry of Commerce
(1) Ministry Office
Ph-067 408266, Fax-067 408004
e-mail: licolhan@gmail.com
(2) Yangon Branch
Ph-01 251197, Fax-01 253028
e-mail: thanaungkyaw61@gmail.com
(b) Directorate of Investment and Companies Administration
(1) Nay Pyi Taw Office
Ph-067 406166, Fax-067 406306
e-mail: nangyiyithan@gmail.com
(2) Yangon Branch
Ph-01 657891, Fax-01 657825
e-mail: chochowynn2011@gmail.com
Private Sector Development Subcommittee

No plan to enact law for conservation
of Inlay region

Nay Pyi Taw, 2 Oct—
The second-day session of
Pyithu Hluttaw continued
with 11 agendas today.
Regarding the bill on
recall of representatives

that was suspended for
discussion by the Hluttaw
on 23 August, Chairman
of the Pyithu Hluttaw Bill
Committee U T Khun Myat
urged the Hluttaw to con-

New Zealand goodwill
delegation arrives in Yangon
yaNgoN, 2 Oct— At
the invitation of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker Thura
U Shwe Mann, a goodwill
delegation led by Speaker
of the House of Representatives of New Zealand Rt.
Hon. David Cater arrived
here this afternoon.
They were welcomed
by Speaker of Yangon